- Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Summary
- In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: 'Contemporary Black Artists in America', at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and 'The DeLuxe Show', a racially integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto. This title looks at many black artists' desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts - and those of their advocates - to further that aim through public exhibition. Amid calls to define a 'black aesthetic,' these experiments with modernist art prioritized cultural interaction and instability.
- Alternative Title
- Nineteen seventy-one
- Subject
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2016.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 16, 2017).
- ISBN
- 9780226274737
- OCLC
- EDZ0001592041
- Author
English, Darby, 1974- author.
- Title
1971 : a year in the life of color / Darby English.
- Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
still image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience
Specialized.
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